Checked Out

When rodeo cowboy Cody is found dead in his horse trailer, it appears that his horse, Game Boy, is the culprit. Aimee Machado, health sciences librarian at Timbergate Medical Center, has no reason to doubt the preliminary finding, at first. Cody had beenin the hospital awaiting an operation the night he died, but he checked himself out. Had he reason to believe his surgeon, Dr. Phyllis Poole, was incompetent? Or is his death related to his complex relationship with his family? It turns out his father isdying, and four people other than Cody stood to inherit: his young trophy wife Echo, his son James, his daughter Keely, and her fiance Tucker. How does Dr. Poole fit into all this?